Author: Caroline
Sunday, 07 February 1999 - 10:10 am |        |
Dear All,
If I could sit down with Anne Graham and Mike Barratt now, and put a couple of well-chosen questions to them, not on the surface connected to the diary, their answers would let me know whether either was capable of creating the content. As my research takes me further down the road, I hope I may one day have the opportunity to do so, with certain witnesses present, so that you, dear listener, will be able to share that knowledge, whichever way the cookie crumbles.
If a few lives are made easier as a result of these efforts, it will be a small start in undoing the mischief caused by the diary author or authors. Don’t forget, the lives made easier could range from Mike and Anne and family on the one hand, to Melvin Harris and co. and our dear anonymous friend on the other, so I’m leaving no one out here! In fact, this includes all of us whose valuable time has been taken up by the appearance of said diary.
Unfortunately, should Anne and Mike come up smelling of roses, people will see a million and one other hurdles looming up ahead. (All right, all right, I am working steadily on those too, but this is a huge learning curve for a housewife with seven ‘O’ levels, who read the diary for the first time last October, and only learned how to turn hubby’s computer on just after Christmas!)
Those happy souls who feel they have wasted no time on the diary, and do not intend to change now, may indeed be the lucky ones. But if they are not interested in proving who wrote the diary, using tried and tested methods of detection and fair play, then I must question their interest and abilities in solving any of life’s puzzles, from the identity of Jack himself, down to those inane lottery-type questions in TV phone-in competitions. Can’t you just see a certain anonymous poster regularly calling these hotlines to register a witty “Don’t Know” one-liner, the fact never dawning on the poor creature that, when the phone bill arrives, the joke will be on him, and only him! Shame!
I must go and have a quick rub down with the Sporting Life before going back to the hurdle race.
Actually, we are taking Little Caz to see A Bug’s Life, so maybe I’ll catch up with you there, Anon!
Missing you all already,
Caroline |
Author: Anonymous
Monday, 22 February 1999 - 03:34 pm | |
What a martyr you are Caz Snr..
Don't fool yourself, the fool in the street will solve the mystery, be sure of that! And all your ramblings and messages posing as your daughter will fade into insignificance...
You can win the battle, but you can't win the war!
|
Author: Caroline
Tuesday, 23 February 1999 - 09:25 am | |
Perhaps I am that fool in the street, my dear, .....and maybe, just maybe, I could end up helping you too, if you'd let me. Maybe I'm the only one who gives a flying toss. I'll give it my best shot, but don't look a gift horse in the mouth, my friend. Your bark may be worse than your bite, but do you have any idea who I am?
Anyone out there believing in Karma? I don't personally, but I may need a hand here! I need to know why this poor soul is so shi* scared.
Love,
Caroline
PS Is Stephen Ryder still monitoring all this vis-a-vis servers and suchlike? |
Author: Yazoo
Wednesday, 24 February 1999 - 07:01 am | |
Hey, Caroline!
I find it very easy to ignore the garbage posted by someone without the courage to identify themselves. It's even easier if the content of the message makes no sense at all. It's easiest by far to ignore them when they make stupid accusations of a personal nature that have already been disproved.
It takes a few days for Beetlejuice to do his work. I'd advise patience as far as that goes.
As for who this Anonymous may be, the Casebook sys admin can find out. If the same person who posted this message has posted any others of like kind and is also posting under a "real" name, I think some action could be taken:
1) Tell us all who the person is
2) Quietly inform the offender that their behavior is no longer acceptable. Straighten up and fly right...or get blocked from posting on these boards.
In the menatime, I'll be around, watching. You call me again if you need me.
Yaz |
Author: Caroline
Wednesday, 24 February 1999 - 07:37 am | |
Cheers Yaz (or may I call you Solomon--again?)
Knew you would come flying to the rescue. A good night's sleep has set me right again. Your advice re patience is most apposite. I am trying to book for Patience in May as we speak. It is showing in Essex I believe. To echo Maybrick's Diary (since this is his board after all) :'patience is all that is needed--patience' (my copy is downstairs so I don't know if I quoted correctly).
BTW, where is the love-sick Jules these days? Hope he isn't going down with influenza (I know that girl and she ain't no good for him).
Love,
Caroline |
Author: Julian
Monday, 01 March 1999 - 12:49 am | |
G'day Caroline,
I'm not really love-sick I just have trouble concentrating when I think about her. Walking with wobbly legs isn't real easy either. A few people have commented about the glazed, vacant expression on my face but I just put that down to thinking about really important things in life like perfumes and flowers and birds singing.
As the great Louis Armstrong once sung "What a wonderful world."
Hugs and kisses everyone
Jules |
Author: Caroline
Monday, 01 March 1999 - 05:57 am | |
Hi Jules, hi everone,
Knitting fog is a doddle!
I have the men and women, I have the tools (knitting needles, that is), let's get down to it post haste!
Love and stuff,
Caroline |
Author: Bob_c
Monday, 01 March 1999 - 08:23 am | |
Hi all,
Yaz, I have addressed Mr Annon on another topic about his manners. I suppose it be someone who has written, when not any more, on the board openly before and now tries to avenge himself for some supposed slight or other. He can attack me if he likes, but I would ask him to leave others alone who have not done him any harm.
Caroline, my dear. Are the knitting needles you speak of those from the sweat-oozing amazon? Greetings to you and little Caz (and Hubby, too). If you only learnt how to turn a computer on just after christmas, you're doing damn fine now! I had no luck on Sunday, but have started enquiries.
Congrats, Jules, I wish you all the joys it brings but don't let it rise to your head.
Love/regards to all,
Bob |
Author: Yazoo
Monday, 01 March 1999 - 09:39 am | |
Hey, Bob!
Welcome back. I hope this unpleasantness ends soon for us all. We're here for an altogether different purpose than to belittle and demean one another.
Thanks as always, my friend.
Yaz
P.S., Isn't there a Truffaut movie called Jules in Love or something like that? |
Author: Bob_c
Monday, 01 March 1999 - 11:14 am | |
Hi Yaz,
Thanks for the welcome. Pity that there is always someone who dances out of line, but maybe that's what stops life from at least getting too boring.
The only fog I've seen in the last few days was in my own head during the week-end evenings away from home. A lovely romance as with Jules remained non-existent too, but that at least saves trouble at 'ome.
I would have liked to got to the CDC on April 10th, but duty calls, or rather shrieks, in Hanover. Although the show starts on the 19th April, we'll be having the usual chaos for at least 14 days before then with curses, accusations, secretaries in tears or threatening to quit, lost students and almost the half of everything forgotten.
Never mind, in 15 years or so I can go in pension, put on a grey beard, sit in my rocking-chair, clout the grandchildren and watch telly.
All the best to you, Buddy,
Bob |
Author: Edana
Monday, 01 March 1999 - 01:12 pm | |
Caroline, shouldn't that be poste haste? Ok, now you can thwap me with a copy of the Maybrick diary. I would help with the knitting, but I forgot how after I knitted a 'Doctor Who' scarf many years ago. I swore I would never knit again!
Jules...how wonderful. You sound like a very nice guy. Everybody loves a lover! Goodonya!
Edana |
Author: Caroline
Monday, 01 March 1999 - 03:17 pm | |
Hi all,
I thought everyone knew me as that sweat-oozing Amazon. I used to design and knit my own Fair Isle jumpers, but the telegraph poles have been neatly hidden behind the clothes in my extensive wardrobe for a good two years now.
Glad to see you Bob. Mr.Anon just caught me at a down moment when I needed a bit of moral support, otherwise I would indeed have ignored it all.
Edana, how do you manage to keep so sane when all around are going bananas?
Which reminds me, I owe Peter B. a lifetime's supply for knowing about Princess Ida. Ssh, perhaps he'll forget. He's getting a bit wound up about my 'identifying' with victims--anyone would think we were discussing Jack the Ripper here.
Love to all,
Caroline |
Author: Julian
Monday, 01 March 1999 - 10:08 pm | |
G'day everyone and thanks for all the words of support and encouragement for Nina and myself. Things like this are only tried by the test of time and nothing outside that can truely interfere with love, honesty and affection. I'll leave it at that before everyone throws up.
Caroline, I can knit plain. Pearl I could probably do with guidance but anything more complicated than that and I'm lost.
Is this fog we're going to knit anything like scotch mist?
Jules |
Author: Edana
Tuesday, 02 March 1999 - 09:18 am | |
Oooh Jules. You had to go and mention scotch mist. We should all get together, drink scotch mist, or irish mist, while wearing our London Fog raincoats and listen to 'Misty' and watch John Carpenter's film "The Fog". A foggy day in London town......!
Edana (haven't the foggiest idea!) |
Author: Caroline
Tuesday, 02 March 1999 - 12:32 pm | |
I'm going all misty just thinking about it, and I feel as playful as that kitten too.
I may have got this fog thing arse about face. Let's face it, anyone can 'un'knit, so maybe it's a case of unravelling the fog that Jack knitted all those years back, when fog, or early smog (smoke/fog), was indeed an integral part of London. Just as the Thames used to freeze over in earlier times. My great great (probably great again) grandfather, as a babe-in-arms, was given a slice of roast ox, actually mid-river, cooked on a burning brazier. (not brazziere!) Hard to imagine somehow.
Scotch mist? Sssh, we'll have Nessie fans here next.
Lots of love,
Caz |
Author: Julian
Monday, 15 March 1999 - 10:12 pm | |
G'day
Have you guys ever tried that Glenfiddich stuff? Costs a bloody fortune over here. Not the sort of scotch you mix with coke.
Let me snuggle up to a keg of VB and I'll purr contentedly all through the night.
Jules |
Author: Matthew Delahunty
Monday, 15 March 1999 - 10:37 pm | |
For those of you who don't know, VB stands for Victoria Bitter. It's the most popular Australian beer.
Dela |
Author: Edana
Tuesday, 16 March 1999 - 08:50 am | |
Glenfiddach is good, but I prefer Dalwhinnie. A nice soothing glass of Dalwhinnie on the rocks and a good mild cigar and..yum. It's almost worth the icky ass mouth in the morning.
Edana |
Author: Caroline
Tuesday, 16 March 1999 - 11:28 am | |
Hi Edana,
Cigars? Not in my house you don't!
I found two wonderful T shirts today you would love. They had Wilde quotations on them. If you decide to come visit me one day, I'll take you to the shop. If you promise not to light up indoors I may even treat you to them.
I ruin bitter by adding a dash of lemonade, but it's very refreshing in this summer weather we are enjoying here today.
Love,
Caroline |
Author: D. Radka
Tuesday, 16 March 1999 - 01:22 pm | |
Pardon me. I am sometimes interrelating with a very interesting Hoyo de Monterrey, or perhaps even a Tabaclara A. Fuente Montesino if I'm up for the taste of something finely aged, when posting to these Boards. And until one feels prepared to undertake gentlemanly reasonable comparisons of the merits of the Licenciados Soberano versus the Lars Tetons Asadashi, kindly grant we cigar achievers leave.
Ass Mouth |
Author: Edana
Tuesday, 16 March 1999 - 03:04 pm | |
Caroline, I wouldn't even smoke a cigar in my own home. I would never light up in anyone's home. I take my nasty habit to a cigar bar where we puffers puff away in smoky bliss. Oooh! Tee shirts with Oscar Wilde quotes! Outstanding! Maybe some day I'll come and visit you and we can check them out together. David.....LARS?? Oh my goodness! I actually sort of know Lars and his cigars. I get them free all the time. He passes them out like candy around here. He also has a skateboard blank business and has his hands in lots of things. Personally, I don't like his cigars much, but I have been known to suck one down when there isn't anything else to be had.
Edana |
Author: D. Radka
Tuesday, 16 March 1999 - 06:13 pm | |
Edana,
If you can kindly pick me up a few Lars Tetens (please excuse my mispelling above) Asadashis I'd greatly appreciate it. They are $20 cigars where I live.
David |
Author: Julian
Tuesday, 16 March 1999 - 08:44 pm | |
G'day everyone.
Who started this?
Give me half a dozen schooners of VB, a packet of B&H special filter's, a remote for the telly, a bawdy barmaid and another half dozen VB's and I'm anyone's. Hmmm, come to think of it who would answer a personal ad like that?
Sounds like you guy's have some pretty exotic drinks and things over there. About the classiest drink you can get down at my club is a Bourbon and Coke, Green Label Jim Beam being the top of the top shelf.
I'll have a drink for you all next time I'm down there. I'll have a cigar for you Edana and David too.
Jules |
Author: Edana
Wednesday, 17 March 1999 - 08:51 am | |
David, I'd be glad to gather what Lars cigars I may and send them your way.
Jules....I'd answer that personal ad, but I don't know about the bawdy barmaid...maybe a nice well built young bawdy barman? Throw in a pizza and I'm there!
Edana |
Author: Julian
Wednesday, 17 March 1999 - 06:06 pm | |
G'day Edana,
I'll see your pizza (seafood with pineapple), throw in my barmaid, and raise your barman.
Jules |
Author: Caroline
Thursday, 18 March 1999 - 04:48 am | |
B&H special filters were my favourite when I was 14, back in the days before my marriage to a rabid anti-smoker! I gave up totally in 1978 but the smell of a freshly-lit one still brings back fond memories!
Love,
Caz |
Author: Edana
Thursday, 18 March 1999 - 08:13 am | |
Jules..it's a deal, but I'd prefer raising the barman myself.
Edana |
Author: Julian
Thursday, 18 March 1999 - 06:35 pm | |
G'day Edana, Caz,
Hey Edana, I poured a beer once. Does that count?
Jules |
Author: Caroline
Thursday, 18 March 1999 - 10:46 pm | |
Hi Edana, Jules et al,
I did the barmaid-cum-waitressing bit for a couple of Pensioner's Nights at a working man's club a few years back. It was free drinks all night, so I didn't have to do horrid sums and work out change. God, can those elderly guys drink when it's on the house! Mainly pints of Mild with Rum and Pep chasers. I went for a running flush a few times too.
Do I get the job?
Love,
Caz |
Author: Tee Vee
Saturday, 27 April 2002 - 02:08 pm | |
| Did this post just die out then???? Did Jules get the chick????? Did edana send the cigars ? Did she accept you as barmen/maids????? Damn more mystery than i thought, and from recent posts i gather that caz is caz and caroline and that she doesn`t have the daughter? or she does have mini caz but she doesn`t have a twisted fascination for the macabre Jack the Ripper?????? oh 3 years on and i need to know the answers |
